The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-03-04
WHY MEN HATE WOMEN.
Ill-Tempered Assertions Concerning the
Conduct or Women Under VAR
ious circumstances.

Conduct OF Women Under VAR
ious circumstances.
At the first glance this may seem o
somewhat startling question to ask, so
much. so that tho spontaneous reply
would be: but men do not hate wo-
men," That is precisely where the fall
lacy is. 1t lies in the assumption that
because poets have said finer things
about women than about anything else;
because woman is toasted with enthu-
siastic cheers ut millions of banquets
during every twclve-month; and be.
cause the days of courtship are the
sweetest in mans life; it lies in the
assumption that because of these things
man who hates women is n monstros-
lty who ought to he exled from the
earth. But meanwhile the fact is that
there are plenty of men who hate wo-
men.without hating woman. The fero-
city of tho husband who comes home
(from business) at 8 o'clock in the
morning. and finds his wife placidly
sitting up for him, may not find express
sion in audible language. but it has the
concentrated force of n cyclone and tho
condensed fury of suppressed earth
quake. He goes to bed hating that wife
whom he has sworn to love, protect,
and cherish. Tho moro unconscious
she seems of her delinquency the iierccr
does his anger burn. He knows that
the silent martyrdom she is thus dis
playing is merely q trick by which q
repulse is dlsguisedly implied. If she
wept, or tore her hair, or called him
| bad names, or slammed down the novel
Oh h,I ali yho., In. t<rht
challenge her to mortal combat, and
engage in that connubal duel whose
explosives are known in all their extent
only when it eliminates in the publ
city of the divorce court. But this
silent sitting up, this gentle, voiceless
aspect of having ones life gradually
worn away by the conduct of debauch-
cd consort, is what no husband, how
ever well regulated he may be. can
stand-.at 8 o'clock i'm the morning!
What is the reason that all our car
4 conductors hate all womeno If you
think the case is too strongly stated,
4 ask any car conductor who can spare
time to answer, and he will inform you
that it is tho women passengers, and
not the males, who make his existence
burden and terror. He never feels
safe while a woman is getting into or
out of the car. She rushes with such
impetuosity that if the car retains ever
so little motion as she desccnds from il
she runs the risk Of being thrown OIL
her feet her stupidity never having al
| lowed her to perceive that the front and
not the back handle must be used in
order that the body may respond to the
| nr txyi &c
not her forte, elaboration is, and she
makes her exit with Siddonian slowness
in spite OF the conductors exhortation:
"Step lively, madame" If she gets in
at the Astor House she Immediately
asks to be let out ut Fifty-seventh street.
If the car is full she posts herself against
the entrance. blockading the passage.
Hurried and fluttered, the conductor
waits for her fare. and instead of hand.
ing him q dime and taking change like
creature endowed with reason, she
slowly pokes out five individual cents
from the depths of her blind alley of a
purse. These are few of the reasons
why conductors hate women; but many
more remain.
Why do businessmen hate womeng
Because, as q rule, women do not know
how to behave in places of business.
They come at the wrong time, they say
the wrong things, and they stay too
long. After the business they ostensibly
came for is transacted they chatter
about an intinity OF nothing, wearyins
the soul of the businessman who is too
polite or weak-minded to get rid OF
them. If woman goes to post-oflice
fn al ~ IN mo IL
| nary question, or even to do nothing
more than TO buy n stamp, she either
expects that everybody should make
way for her in the queue Gf there is
one) or she ignores the existence OF
other applicants, plants herself on the
wrong side of the window, and secures
attention, to the prejudice of first COM
ers. The way in which women behave
| ut the box-oflice windows of theaters is
notorious. 1t is said that the official
who sells seats for matinoes is not kept
in the same position long. If he is he
dies, SO the rule of rotation is kindly
worked in his favor and that of his CO.
mates in order that they may live and
not die. Such unhappy beings, men in
spite of this proviso. would be literally
pestered to death if they did not con-
tinually brace themselves to answer
thousands of silly and superiluous ques-
tons with sententious civility.
Why do men who 60 to the thcater
hate wOmenp Because the latter wear
hats which are an outrage upon the
persons who SIT behind them, and an
evidence of the wearers' want of good
breeding, right feeling, and true polite
ness. A woman has no more right to
wear at the theater hat which blocks
up the view that man has right to
wear his hat. Allwomen who do so are
simply nuisances. and the very man
who takes to the theater q woman
wearing such head-gcar confesses in
his heart that he is ashamed of her. un-
less he happens to be in love with her.
This article might be prolonged to
ten times its present length, and an
other equally long might be written
rowing why women hate women, an
.tssenting fact equally uncontrovertible.
But we prefer to put the case briefly,